2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Winning the 13-State-Bible-Belt. Sanders is Still Winning the 37-State-Not-The-Bible-Belt! [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)I'm sorry, but it IS violent language, despite what it originally meant. It plants an image of death by stabbing, and/or cooking a person and then stabbing him with a fork. We should NOT be using these kinds of potential psychological triggers in the political atmosphere of violence that Trump has created. Have a heart! I had mine broken 50 years ago. I don't want it broken again in the few decades I have left. I just shuddered when I saw your logo.
Just for the record, I am generally tolerant of raucous political debate. For instance, I have NEVER reported anybody here for anything, and I don't use "ignore." And the only cited comment I ever voted against, in a jury, was a foul racist comment about Obama. I believe in free speech! I want to see what everybody has on their minds. And I even hesitated over the racist comment, because it taught us not to trust that commenter ever again. (Maybe we should have a kind of pillory, where a commenter who makes such a comment is exposed, rather than hidden.)
But when it comes to violent language and images, in this current atmosphere, I urge you and others to please be aware of the tragic losses we have already suffered in the past, of Trump's language and nazi ambience and what it does to people and also of all the recent mass murder tragedies we have suffered. I think "stick a fork in him" does qualify as something that contributes to that violent atmosphere.
Please don't use it!